190 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



\vinn;-covorfs broadly tipped with whitish, outer webs o£ flight- 

 quills uarrowlj edged with the same colour, inner webs more 

 broadly margined with dull white ; tail uniform pale bruwn ; 

 head somewhat darker than the back ; the feathers of the crest 

 rather long and pointed ; no indication of a coronal patch ; ear- 

 coverts similar to the back; lores, feathers round the eye, cheeks, 

 and throat greyish white; breast and sides of body olive-gre}' and 

 more or less tinged with grey; abdomen and under tail-coverts 

 pale sulphur-yellow like the axillaries and under wing-coverts; 

 under surface of quills brown with pale inner edges; lower aspect 

 of tail uniform greyish brown. 



Total length 127 mm., exposed culmeu 10, wing G5, tail 81, 

 tarsus 18. • 



The female from which the description is taken was collected on 

 the Abary liiver in July lOOG. 



Adult male. Similar to the adult female but slightly larger. 

 "Wing 70 mm. 



The male compared is in the British ]\Iuseum,au(l was collected 

 at Mount Roraima on November 2S, 1881, by the late Heniy 

 Whitely — Salvin-Godman collection. 



Breedbi(j-seaso)i. Unknown in British Guiana. 



jS^est. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Gidana. Abary River {}fcConnell collection) ; 

 Merume ]\rountains. Mount Roraima ( Wldtely). 



Extralimital Range. Brazil, Peru, Venezuela. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



477. Elsenea crista ta parvirostris. 

 Short-billed Crested Flycatcher. 



Eleenia jynvvirostris Pelzeln, Orn. Bras. pp. 107, 178, 1S69 (Cui'ytiba); 



Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i, p. 290, no. 29oo, 1912. 

 Elainea alhiceps (nee Lafr. & dOrb. ) Salviii, Ibis, ISSo, p. 291; 



(Merume Mts., Eoraima SoOO ft.); Sclater, Cat. B.Brit. Mus. xiv. 



p. Ill (part), ISSS (Koraima, Merume Mts.) ; Quelcli, Timeliri (2) 



V. p. 90, 1891 (Georgetown). 



"Muff-birds" {Quelch). 



Adult female. General colour of the upper surface olive-brown 

 including the head, back, lesser upper wing-coverts, and upfier 

 tail-coverts ; median and greater upper wing-coverts, and inner- 



